LA Times

2018-02-17T14:50:00.000000000-08:00
Just days ago, Israeli police recommended that Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted in two corruption cases. But on the first weekend after the bombshell development in the investigation into alleged wrongdoing, Netanyahu isn’t holed up with lawyers or keeping a low profile. Instead, he’s hobnobbing...

2018-02-16T15:55:00.000000000-08:00
A Turkish court has sentenced six journalists and media employees accused of involvement in Turkey's 2016 coup attempt to life in prison without parole, the state-run news agency reported. The Anadolu Agency said the court in Silivri, on the outskirts of Istanbul, on Friday convicted prominent...

2018-02-16T15:20:00.000000000-08:00
Ethiopia, an opaque authoritarian country where protesters, bloggers and journalists often are jailed, faces uncertainty after the unexpected resignation of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. Desalegn’s announcement Thursday came after several years of growing instability and protests in the...

2018-02-16T11:00:00.000000000-08:00
In the depths of the global recession in 2008, a little-known Indian gem dealer made a bold bet by buying up top-quality diamonds and using them to fashion a brand of ultra-luxe jewelry that would soon adorn the necks and wrists of Hollywood stars. Nirav Modi’s brazenness didn’t stop there, accor...

2018-02-16T03:00:00.000000000-08:00
Boris Salomatin has lived his entire 60 years down a dirt road in the tiny village of Khudaiberdynsk, a few miles from the entrance to the massive Mayak nuclear fuel reprocessing complex. The year he was born, this Siberian landscape on the edge of the Ural Mountains bore the brunt of one of the...

2018-02-16T03:00:00.000000000-08:00
This compound in the mountains southwest of Bogota was supposed to be abandoned by now, its white pre-fab houses and water treatment plant dismantled, its residents packed up and gone. It was hastily erected by the government as part of the November 2016 accord that ended a five-decade conflict...

2018-02-15T15:35:00.000000000-08:00
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for more than three hours Thursday in what both sides predicted would be two days of difficult talks after months of badly fraying relations between Washington and its NATO ally in Ankara. An unsmiling Erdogan receiv...

2018-02-15T14:50:00.000000000-08:00
After days of evading questions about Russian mercenaries killed in a U.S. air strike in eastern Syria, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs admitted Thursday that five of the dead were Russian citizens, but insisted they were not members of the military. Maria Zakharova, the ministry’s spokeswoman,...

2018-02-15T11:40:00.000000000-08:00
Millionaire ex-businessman Cyril Ramaphosa, sworn into office as South Africa’s new president Thursday evening, comes to power facing the same entrenched problems that have stumped the governing African National Congress in nearly 24 years in power: gaping inequality, failing education and health...

2018-02-15T07:55:00.000000000-08:00
Russia began blocking opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s website on Thursday after the country’s communications regulator threatened to shut down access to YouTube and Instagram if the social media sites did not remove the anti-corruption crusader’s posts on a Kremlin-connected oligarch. The olig...

2018-02-17T19:19:36.000000000-05:00
Amid the biggest revamp of European defense in years, NATO is pushing the European Union to work closely with non-EU allies as the U.K. maneuvers to maintain its leverage in the region’s security after it exits the bloc.

2018-02-17T18:16:42.000000000-05:00
While Pakistan says it is shutting down Jamaat-ud-Dawa, its leader, Hafiz Saeed, who has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, delivered a blistering attack on Islamabad and Washington at Friday prayers.

2018-02-17T10:37:42.000000000-05:00
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said that he remained hopeful that a recent inter-Korean rapprochement around the Olympics could lead to dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea.

2018-02-17T08:11:40.000000000-05:00
Three Russian companies and 13 Russian citizens were indicted on charges of engaging in a widespread effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, providing the most comprehensive official account to date of a sweeping, multimillion-dollar effort by Russians to upend U.S. politics.

2018-02-17T07:31:39.000000000-05:00
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has laid out key areas of security and defense cooperation she hoped to continue with the European Union after Britain leaves the bloc next year.

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The Guardian

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
The spotlight falls on the designer with a vision is to provide a moment of escapism in dark timesThe question of where fashion sits within the ongoing post-Weinstein cultural awakening feels more pertinent than ever this weekend. Patrick Demarchelier, Princess Diana’s personal fashion photograph...

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
It took decades before any of Barry Bennell’s abuse victims came forward – we need to understand why‘Why did it take them so long to tell anyone?” This is a question we often hear at SurvivorsUK, especially when a high-profile trial, such as that of Barry Bennell, is in the news.Based on an analy...

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
Neither country will benefit from a new Middle East conflict, but unless they cease military clashes, such as those inside Syria last weekend, hopes of peace remain fragileTensions between Israel and Iran have hit a new high following last weekend’s unprecedented military clashes inside Syria. Th...

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
Actress will take role of Katharine Gun, who leaked an email to the Observer about US spying plans, in new filmHer story has been all but forgotten in the years since the 2003 Iraq war ended, overshadowed by more recent, flashier tales. Now a new film, starring Keira Knightley and Matt Smith, wil...

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
One man’s 50-year treasure trove goes on display to mark bloody era in Northern IrelandThere are “Ulster Says No” cigarette lighters, Orange Order Christmas decorations and banknotes mocked up with an image of Gerry Adams at the time of the 2004 Northern Bank heist in Belfast. In all, Peter Molon...

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
Medieval towers in rural areas will host broadband equipment to improve internet accessThey are cherished landmarks of the English countryside: church spires soaring heavenwards. Often visible for miles around, and many dating from medieval times, they now have a new purpose – to facilitate virtu...

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
Crisis-hit party chooses figure who said Islam is ‘death cult’ as new leaderMembers of Ukip voted yesterday to sack Henry Bolton, who had been elected only last September as the crisis-hit party’s fourth leader in 18 months. Bolton had been clinging on to the leadership despite a revolt by senior...

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
Prime minister urged to focus on better access to education for poorer students as she prepares to release funding reviewTheresa May has been warned against damaging disadvantaged students’ access to university in order to fund a tuition fees cut that has been described as “a sop to classic Tory ...

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
Groundbreaking Demos study reveals ‘culture of disbelief’ about disability among jobcentre staff leads to money being dockedDisabled people receiving state benefits have been hit with a million sanctions in less than a decade, according to alarming new evidence that they are being discriminated a...

2018-02-18T00:05:29.000000000+00:00
Gemma Arterton, Tessa Thompson, Gemma Chan and Jodie Whittaker are among 190 signatories of letter demanding end to abuse and inequalityThe most famous female stars of British film were set to stand together, each dressed in black, on Bafta’s red carpet outside London’s Royal Albert Hall, many ac...

2018-02-17T07:34:42.508000000+00:00
Haiti's president says sexual misconduct by staff of British charity Oxfam is only the tip of an iceberg and called for investigations into Doctors Without Borders and other aid organisations which came to the country after its 2010 earthquake.

2018-02-17T06:16:45.382000000+00:00
German reporter Deniz Yucel, released on Friday after a year-long detention in Turkey, says Ankara held him hostage and that the reason for his arrest remains unclear.

2018-02-17T06:05:43.369000000+00:00
A military helicopter carrying Mexico's interior minister and the governor of the southern state of Oaxaca has crashed, killing two people during a tour of damage from an earthquake earlier in the day, but the senior officials survived.

2018-02-17T06:05:43.366000000+00:00
The board of the Weinstein Company has voted to fire Chief Operating Officer David Glasser, saying he failed to protect employees from Harvey Weinstein's pattern of sexual harassment.

2018-02-17T06:05:43.340000000+00:00
The troubled teenager accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school excelled in an air-rifle marksmanship program supported by a grant from the National Rifle Association Foundation.

2018-02-17T04:23:42.885000000+00:00
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has met with his deputy Barnaby Joyce in Sydney for talks about the coalition leadership crisis threatening to spiral out of control.

2018-02-18T02:23:25.000000000+00:00
No deaths were immediately reported from the 7.2-magnitude quake, but 13 people were killed when a helicopter bringing officials to a town near the epicenter crashed.

2018-02-18T02:18:34.000000000+00:00
Fleeing an economic crisis and rampant crime, more than half a million Venezuelans have crossed into Colombia, with many sleeping on the streets, begging for food and suffering abuse from the locals.

2018-02-18T02:03:54.000000000+00:00
When Russian trolling techniques were exported to the United States, it seems to have been done with a lack of discipline and secrecy. But that does not mean the operation lacked high-level support.

2018-02-18T01:51:38.000000000+00:00
They are Arabs and Kurds, men and women, young and old. Meet some of the fighters who teamed up with the United States to drive the Islamic State out of northeastern Syria.

2018-02-18T01:50:54.000000000+00:00
Jenna was relieved when her boyfriend, a U.S. Special Forces soldier, told her he was deploying to Africa, rather than to a war zone like Iraq or Afghanistan. When he was killed in an ambush in Niger, she was left with the fragments of their imagined future.

2018-02-18T00:03:55.000000000+00:00
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster accused Moscow of engaging in “disinformation, subversion and espionage.” The comments highlighted a sharp division in the White House on how to talk about Russia’s actions.

2018-02-17T20:45:00.000000000+00:00
Thirteen people were killed and 16 injured when a military helicopter carrying high-ranking officials assessing damage from a powerful earthquake crashed in southern Mexico, officials said Saturday.

2018-02-17T19:14:43.000000000+00:00
Activists and artists in Mexico held a mournful, dirge-like procession for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise Saturday, as the species' numbers fell below 30.

2018-02-17T18:19:29.000000000+00:00
Israeli politicians accused Poland's prime minister of anti-Semitism Saturday for equating the Polish perpetrators in the Holocaust to its supposed "Jewish perpetrators," setting off a new chapter in an angry dispute over Poland's new bill criminalizing the mention of Polish complicity in the Naz...

2018-02-17T18:00:36.000000000+00:00
The state news agency Petra reports that Jordan's military says it has foiled a plot to smuggle in weapons, drugs and terrorists by using an old pipeline linking the kingdom with Syria and Iraq.

2018-02-17T17:05:19.000000000+00:00
Video footage has surfaced of the moment a Turkish coast guard vessel collided with a stationary Greek patrol boat near a pair of Aegean Sea islets over which the two countries almost went to war in 1996.

2018-02-17T16:39:00.000000000+00:00
A military helicopter carrying officials assessing damage from a powerful earthquake crashed Friday in southern Mexico, killing 13 people and injuring 15, all of them on the ground.

2018-02-17T16:29:57.000000000+00:00
A Cyprus court has ordered the detention of two asylum-seekers on suspicion that they instigated a small uprising at an immigrant reception center, causing extensive damage to offices and setting fire to furniture and trash bins.

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CBSNews

2018-02-17T23:57:13.000000000+00:00
Magnitude-4.4 earthquake affected parts of England and Wales; events of that magnitude only occur in the U.K. every 2-3 years, according to the British Geological Survey

2018-02-17T16:06:32.000000000+00:00
Chef Seamus Mullen grew up on an organic farm in Vermont where his mother and grandmother provided his first cooking lessons. He worked in some of the top kitchens in Spain before bringing his take on modern Spanish cooking back home and eventually opening the acclaimed Tertulia in New York City....

2018-02-17T14:56:15.000000000+00:00
The Milwaukee-based musicians first drew attention back in 2012, when the unsigned group performed at the South by Southwest festival. Things took off later that year with the release of their self-titled debut album. The band's third full-length album, "Summertime Songs" comes out next month.

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CBC

2018-02-17T13:10:46.000000000-05:00
Calls for gun control laws rang out at an emotionally charged rally in Florida today as the state legislature grapples with what to do in the aftermath of Wednesday's shooting at a Parkland high school.

2018-02-17T11:23:05.000000000-05:00
Top Russian and American officials exchange barbs in Germany over the U.S. indictment of 13 Russians accused of an elaborate plot to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.

2018-02-17T09:49:17.000000000-05:00
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is refusing to take sides in the British Columbia-Alberta pipeline, as his party holds a convention where environmental policy resolutions are set to take up a large amount of real estate.

2018-02-17T09:00:00.000000000-05:00
More than two dozen patient groups want to stop Health Canada from trying to cut prescription drug prices in Canada, arguing that lower prices could be bad for patients. Their message echoes the one from the pharmaceutical industry lobby group Innovative Medicines Canada.

2018-02-17T04:32:52.000000000-05:00
A public prosecutor in Pakistan says a court has sentenced a serial killer to death after finding him guilty of killing eight children, including a seven-year-old girl whose rape and murder drew nationwide condemnation.

2018-02-17T04:00:00.000000000-05:00
Two-way trade between Canada and India amounts to only about $8 billion annually — a number Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hopes to improve with an official visit that begins this weekend. He has multiple meetings planned with Indian CEOs and business leaders over the coming days.

2018-02-17T20:01:00.000000000+00:00
Florida gunman Nikolas Cruz was investigated by the state's child welfare agency after posting videos of him cutting his arms on Snapchat and speaking of his intention to buy a gun, it has emerged.

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Reuters

2018-02-17T23:45:39.000000000-05:00
MIAMI (Reuters) - Student survivors of a mass shooting that killed 17 people at a Florida high school called for gun restrictions on Saturday during an angry and somber rally, but attendees at a nearby gun show said firearms could not be blamed for the massacre.

2018-02-17T20:29:01.000000000-05:00
PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) - A teenager accused of fatally shooting 17 people at a Florida high school was investigated by police and state officials as far back as 2016 after slashing his arm in a social media video, and saying he wanted to buy a gun, but authorities determined he was receiving su...

2018-02-17T20:07:20.000000000-05:00
SANTIAGO JAMILTEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) - At least 13 people on the ground, including three children, were killed when a Mexican military helicopter carrying top officials surveying damage from an earthquake crashed in a small town in the southern state of Oaxaca, authorities said on Saturday.

2018-02-17T18:57:11.000000000-05:00
PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) - A teenager accused of shooting to death 17 people at a Florida high school was investigated by police and state officials as far back as 2016 after slashing his arm in a social media video, and saying he wanted to buy a gun, but authorities determined he was receiving s...

2018-02-17T18:35:20.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has drawn a new accusation of bank fraud from U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office, according to court documents made public on Friday.

2018-02-17T18:25:38.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Russian propaganda arm oversaw a criminal and espionage conspiracy to tamper in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign to support Donald Trump and disparage Hillary Clinton, said an indictment released on Friday that revealed more details than previously known about Moscow's...

2018-02-17T18:22:32.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The key witness in the case of a Chilean bishop accused of covering sexual abuse said on Saturday he gave "eye opening" testimony to a papally mandated investigator and hoped it would lead to the truth.

2018-02-17T16:14:34.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will start using postcards sent by U.S. mail later this year to verify the identities and location of people who want to purchase U.S. election-related advertising on its site, a senior company executive said on Saturday.

2018-02-17T14:51:46.000000000-05:00
MALE (Reuters) - Maldives police arrested 25 people under a state of emergency, opposition legislators said on Saturday, after thousands of protesters gathered a day earlier to call for the detention of the president and release of opposition leaders.

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Yahoo!

2018-02-17T08:00:01.000000000-05:00
Charmaine Savage wouldn’t want to start a conversation about herself with grim stereotypes of East St. Louis, Ill., her hometown. A once-prosperous manufacturing, rail, and shipping center, East St. Louis had a peak population of 80,000 around 1950. This town has nurtured African-American icons...

2018-02-17T06:00:02.000000000-05:00
“In the era of Donald Trump, the world is confused about what America stands for and with whom it stands...,” states an editorial. “That is why people’s attitude [about the Feb. 7] visit to Jamaica by Rex Tillerson is so paradoxical.

2018-02-17T06:00:01.000000000-05:00
Regarding the Jan. 1 &amp; 8 cover story, “Bridging black and white”: I posted this story on my Facebook page because I want everyone to read it. St. Louis, we care about you and all the residents. Recommended: Could you pass a US citizenship test?

2018-02-16T16:53:00.000000000-05:00
Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday indicted 13 Russians, and three Russian organizations, with meddling in the 2016 US election. The charges centered on the alleged use of social media to sow political discord, via inserting politically charged messages into the stream of American electron...

2018-02-16T16:35:06.000000000-05:00
The challenge facing Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation of President Trump and his associates extends beyond determining whether there was a conspiracy with Russians to meddle in the 2016 election or an attempt to obstruct the FBI’s investigation. In a larger sense, Mr. Mueller ...

2018-02-16T15:14:57.000000000-05:00
First to grab headlines was the launching last weekend of an Iranian drone from western Syria into Israel for the first time. Israel shot it down, then lost one of its own F-16 jet fighters – the first such loss in decades – to a Syrian anti-aircraft missile after striking the drone’s home base....

2018-02-16T15:10:21.000000000-05:00
Charitable giving in the United States went up 4 percent last year, a nice jump after near-zero growth the year before, according to the Blackbaud Institute. One reason may be a new trend in giving: With more places suffering mass killing of innocent people, whether in Iraqi cities or in America...

2018-02-16T11:36:18.000000000-05:00
Not so long ago, the idea of Americans winning an Olympic medal in Nordic skiing was about as heretical as the thought of a Norwegian team winning the Super Bowl. Or that Norwegian skiers were national celebrities with a team budget 14 times bigger than that of the Americans, who still do their ...

2018-02-15T17:56:54.000000000-05:00
Sure, I had seen him on TV during his six years as President Obama’s attorney general. How would he feel about facing a room packed with reporters – 35, including me, the host – bursting with questions about the Mueller investigation, “memo wars, ” criminal justice reform, race, and gerrymanderi...

2018-02-15T17:09:23.000000000-05:00
After her son Ramarley Graham was shot and killed by a New York police officer, Constance Malcolm says she dedicated herself to community activism almost by accident. Two hundred miles away in Baltimore, a city experiencing an unprecedented wave of murders since the death of Freddie Gray, a smal...

2018-02-18T05:03:54.094000000+00:00
THE new host of Channel Nine’s Footy Show Erin Molan, who is currently pregnant with her first child, has collapsed at work and been rushed to hospital via ambulance.

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Russia Today

2018-02-18T04:30:00.000000000+00:00
A team of scientists has grown embryos inside a sheep that contain human stem cells, moving the sci-fi idea of developing human organs inside animals one step closer to reality, which has sparked ethical concerns. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-18T03:05:48.000000000+00:00
Mabruk Jarrar, 39, was savagely mauled by an Israeli military dog in a raid on his home in the West Bank. While the Israeli authorities insist this was an isolated incident, reports on the ground seem to suggest otherwise. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-18T02:42:15.000000000+00:00
As Democrats indict Russians over "election meddling," former CIA officers say the US has been interfering in foreign elections for decades and “hopefully” will keep doing so because it has the moral high ground. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-18T00:51:52.000000000+00:00
At least one person is reported to have been killed in a plane crash in the city of Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. Photos on social media show a burning airplane lying in a pile of rubble near a badly scorched house. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-18T00:21:00.000000000+00:00
Next time you complain about your morning commute, think of this 76-year-old Siberian woman who skates across the world’s deepest lake, wearing a pair of skates from 1943, in order to take care of her cows. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-17T22:46:00.000000000+00:00
A large and emotionally charged crowd gathered outside a Florida federal courthouse, demanding that politicians take action to restrict guns in the wake of this week’s deadly school shooting in the state. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-17T21:14:06.000000000+00:00
The founder of the National Parents Organization has told RT that special interests in the law industry are blocking reforms that would give fathers more rights to see their children following divorce. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-17T21:09:41.000000000+00:00
Ukrainian right-wing extremists have burst into the building of the Russian international cultural agency in Kiev. The radicals burnt a Russian flag and wreaked havoc in the facility at a time when “children were there.”
Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-17T20:19:36.000000000+00:00
Arguably the biggest inverted house in the world has popped up in the Russian city of Ufa, where the spectacular artwork is giving tourists a unique, topsy-turvy perspective on life.
Read Full Article at RT.com

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Russian Times

2018-02-18T02:42:15.000000000+00:00
As Democrats indict Russians over "election meddling," former CIA officers say the US has been interfering in foreign elections for decades and “hopefully” will keep doing so because it has the moral high ground. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-18T00:51:52.000000000+00:00
At least one person is reported to have been killed in a plane crash in the city of Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. Photos on social media show a burning airplane lying in a pile of rubble near a badly scorched house. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-18T00:21:00.000000000+00:00
Next time you complain about your morning commute, think of this 76-year-old Siberian woman who skates across the world’s deepest lake, wearing a pair of skates from 1943, in order to take care of her cows. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-17T22:46:00.000000000+00:00
A large and emotionally charged crowd gathered outside a Florida federal courthouse, demanding that politicians take action to restrict guns in the wake of this week’s deadly school shooting in the state. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-17T21:14:06.000000000+00:00
The founder of the National Parents Organization has told RT that special interests in the law industry are blocking reforms that would give fathers more rights to see their children following divorce. Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-17T21:09:41.000000000+00:00
Ukrainian right-wing extremists have burst into the building of the Russian international cultural agency in Kiev. The radicals burnt a Russian flag and wreaked havoc in the facility at a time when “children were there.”
Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-17T20:19:36.000000000+00:00
Arguably the biggest inverted house in the world has popped up in the Russian city of Ufa, where the spectacular artwork is giving tourists a unique, topsy-turvy perspective on life.
Read Full Article at RT.com

2018-02-17T18:42:31.000000000+00:00
After an Iranian-American fashion blogger was grilled on live TV about her heritage, she fired back with a biting critique of the US. She told RT what her interview reveals about attitudes towards Muslims in the West. Read Full Article at RT.com